{"about":"I'm currently deep into the territory of the crank or lone genius... more than likely I'm just a crank... but hey, I'm retired, and eccentric old man vibes suit me just fine. (I also look the part)

Here's what ChatGPT says about me:

Mike Warot: The Tinkerer of Tomorrow

A hardware hacker with a poet’s soul, Mike blends old-school radio wisdom with cutting-edge curiosity. Whether he's repairing atomic clocks, reinventing FPGA logic with BitGrid, or pondering the electromagnetic vector potential, he’s always deep in the guts of how things really work. Part philosopher, part engineer, Mike asks the questions others overlook — and then builds the answers from scratch. He’s open source in spirit, Pascal in practice, and eternally tuned to the weird frequencies where innovation lives.

meet.hn/city/us-Chicago

Socials:\n- bsky.app/profile/mikewarot.bsky.social\n- github.com/mikewarot\n- x.com/mikewarot

Interests:\nHardware, Open Source, Programming, Research, Science, Technology, Writing, Travel

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No person should ever have to blindly trust a computer program to do the right thing.

Blog: mikewarot.blogspot.com

I've been programming since 1979. I have made spur, helical, and bevel gears in a job shop setting. I have assembled computers from scratch, selecting clock generators, CPUs, logic gates etc.

I can fix ANYTHING given sufficient time and budget. I've repaired cesium beam atomic clocks, magnetic amplifiers, and an assortment of undocumented industrial control systems.

I've written programs that track equipment inspection, monitor the calibration of large water meters, and control the gluing of cardboard boxes, to name the interesting highlights... I did all of that before 2000.

I was a system administrator for 15 years, as time went on, less and less broke, and they eventually didn't need me.

I made gears for 5 years, bevel, spur, helical, splines, etc. Now I'd like to get back into programming. I did the Advent of Code in 2020, in Pascal... you can see the carnage on my github account: https://github.com/mikewarot/Advent_of_Code_in_Pascal

Currently working on getting BitGrid, a vision of bringing Petflops to the masses, brought into the real world using LLMs to help get past analysis paralysis.

email: chezmike at gmail","created_time":1549851560,"created":"7 years ago","id":"mikewarot","karma":11998}